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Groundwater Environment in Asian Cities - Concepts, Methods and Case Studies (Paperback): Sangam Shrestha, Vishnu Prasad... Groundwater Environment in Asian Cities - Concepts, Methods and Case Studies (Paperback)
Sangam Shrestha, Vishnu Prasad Pandey, Shashidhar Thatikonda, Binaya Raj Shivakoti
R2,656 R2,503 Discovery Miles 25 030 Save R153 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Groundwater contributes to the sustainable development of many Asian cities by providing water for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses and regulating ecosystem flows. However, groundwater has not always been properly managed, which often has resulted in depletion and degradation of the resource. Groundwater Environment in Asian Cities presents the up-to-date scientific knowledge on groundwater environment in fourteen Asian cities using Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework. In detail the book presents the facts and figures of groundwater dependency, problems related to groundwater over exploitation, implementation of various policy instruments and management practices and their results in selected fourteen Asian cities, namely; Bandung (Indonesia), Bangkok (Thailand), Beijing (China), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Chitwan (Nepal), Delhi (India), Dili (East Timor), Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Hyderabad (India), Khulna (Bangladesh), Lahore (Pakistan), Seoul (South Korea), Tokyo (Japan), and Yangon (Myanmar). The book provides the one-step platform to get sufficient details about groundwater aquifers, hydrogeology, groundwater status, impacts on groundwater environment and responses (technology, policy, institutional, etc.) deployed in the case studies cities, and therefore, provides a snap-shot of Asian groundwater environments. The theoretical background of the topics discussed along with the case studies help the readers understand the similarities and differences about the status of groundwater development and use in each city. In addition, the information in the book will serve as a baseline for other research such as mitigation of groundwater related problems (e.g., land subsidence), impact of climate change on groundwater, and importance of groundwater for implementing sustainable development goals in future.

International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of "Urban Diseases" - Reflections on the Low-Carbon Development of the... International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of "Urban Diseases" - Reflections on the Low-Carbon Development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region (Hardcover)
Lu Xiaocheng; Contributions by Xia Xia
R5,548 Discovery Miles 55 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With an integration of theories, comparative and empirical studies, this book aims to find a treatment for Beijing's "urban diseases" and coordinate a low-carbon development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China. Unprecedented industrialization and unconventional urbanization caused a series of "urban diseases" for developing cities across the globe. By summarizing and exploring the evolution and phased characteristics of "urban diseases", the author implements theories across classical sociology, human ecology, community school, and low-carbon city as the base for policy recommendations. This book also provides in-depth examinations and comparative studies of other metropolises' experiences in controlling "urban diseases". Cities such as New York, London, and Tokyo were modeled to propose the most appropriate low-carbon development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. With a focus on developing cities in Northern China, this book will be a great read to all scholars and students of environmental studies, development studies, urban studies, and contemporary China studies. It will also be a great addition for those who are interested in social conflicts and economic development.

Patrick Geddes' Contribution to Sociology and Urban Planning - Vision of A City (Hardcover): Indra Munshi Patrick Geddes' Contribution to Sociology and Urban Planning - Vision of A City (Hardcover)
Indra Munshi
R4,476 Discovery Miles 44 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

1) This book presents a comprehensive account of Patrick Geddes work on sociology and urban planning. 2) It deals with the vital theme of sustainability of modern Cities and ecological crisis. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of urban studies and city planning across UK and USA.

Planning Wild Cities - Human-Nature Relationships in the Urban Age (Paperback): Wendy Steele Planning Wild Cities - Human-Nature Relationships in the Urban Age (Paperback)
Wendy Steele
R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change. A key focus of the book is exploring the nexus of possibilities for wild cities and the eco-ethical imagination needed to drive sustainable and resilient urban pathways. Many now have serious doubts about the prospects for humanity to live within cities that are socially just and responsive to planetary limits. Is it possible for planning to better serve, protect and nurture our human and non-human worlds? This book argues it is. Drawing on international literature and Australian case examples, this book explores issues around climate change, colonization, urban (in)security and the rights to the city for both humans and nature. It is within this context that this book focuses on the urgent need to better understand how contemporary cities have changed, and the relational role of planning within it. Planning Wild Cities will be of particular interest to students and scholars of planning, urban studies, and sustainable development, and for all those invested in re-shaping our 'wild' city futures.

Parking Regulation and Management - The Emerging Tool for a Sustainable City (Paperback): Daniel Albalate, Albert Gragera Parking Regulation and Management - The Emerging Tool for a Sustainable City (Paperback)
Daniel Albalate, Albert Gragera
R1,372 Discovery Miles 13 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Containing some of the most recent and original studies on parking regulation and management from different disciplines, this book offers rigorous analysis from top researchers with a clear intention to deliver policy implications and provide information to the public. The book is organized according to a variety of key topics. Among others, it covers the interaction of parking with other modes of transportation and its demand, its pricing and external effects, the role of information and digitalization, and the effects of regulation and its enforcement. Also, it includes the views of practitioners, who discuss present parking in cities and the future of its management. Written primarily for scholars interested in transportation, mobility, planning and urban affairs, this book is also directly relevant to practitioners and policymakers in government with responsibilities in mobility. Additionally, the book will be of interest to the private sector as it offers a practical link between rigorous academic analyses and the needs of practitioners.

Havana - Mapping Lived Experiences of Urban Agriculture (Hardcover): Susan Fitzgerald Havana - Mapping Lived Experiences of Urban Agriculture (Hardcover)
Susan Fitzgerald
R1,664 Discovery Miles 16 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Following the crisis of the Special Period, Cuba promoted urban agriculture throughout its towns and cities to address food sovereignty and security. Through the adoption of state recommended design strategies, these gardens have become places of social and economic exchange throughout Cuba. This book maps the lived experiences surrounding three urban farms in Havana to construct a deeper understanding about the everyday life of this city. Using narratives and drawings, this research uncovers these sites as places where education, intimacy, entrepreneurism, wellbeing, and culture are interwoven alongside food production. Henri Lefebvre's latent work on rhythmanalysis is used as a research method to capture the everyday beats particular to Havana surrounding these sites. This book maps the many ways in which these spaces shift power away from the state to become places that are co-created by the community to serve as a crucial hinge point between the ongoing collapse of the city and its future wellbeing.

Nation's Metropolis - The Economy, Politics, and Development of the Washington Region (Hardcover): Royce Hanson, Harold... Nation's Metropolis - The Economy, Politics, and Development of the Washington Region (Hardcover)
Royce Hanson, Harold Wolman
R1,541 R1,439 Discovery Miles 14 390 Save R102 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nation's Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy. Its authors distinguish aspects of the Washington region that reflect its characteristics as a national capital from those common to most other metropolitan regions and to other capitals. To do so, they employ an interdisciplinary approach that draws from economics, political science, sociology, geography, and history. Royce Hanson and Harold Wolman focus on four major themes: the federal government as the region's basic industry and its role in economic, physical, and political development; race as a core force in the development of the metropolis; the mismatch of the governance and economy of the national capital region; and the conundrum of achieving fully democratic governance for Washington, DC. Critical regional issues and policy problems are analyzed in the context of these themes, including poverty, inequality, education, housing, transportation, water supply, and governance. The authors conclude that the institutions and practices that accrued over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are inadequate for dealing effectively with the issues confronting the city and the region in the twenty-first. The accumulation of problems arising from the unique role of the federal government and the persistent problem of racial inequality has been compounded by failure to resolve the conundrum of governance for the District of Columbia. They recommend rethinking the governance of the entire region. While many books are concerned with the city of Washington, DC, Nation's Metropolis is the only book focused on the development and political economy of the metropolitan region as a whole. It will engage readers interested in the national capital, metropolitan development more generally, and the growing comparative literature on national capitals.

Heterotopia and the City - Public Space in a Postcivil Society (Paperback): Michiel De Haene, Lieven De Cauter Heterotopia and the City - Public Space in a Postcivil Society (Paperback)
Michiel De Haene, Lieven De Cauter
R1,483 Discovery Miles 14 830 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Heterotopia, literally meaning 'other place', is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. Heterotopia and the City seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival markets. With theoretical contributions on the concept of heterotopia, including a new translation of Foucault's influential 1967 text, Of Other Space and essays by well-known scholars, the book comprises a series of critical case studies, from Beaubourg to Bilbao, which probe a range of (post)urban transformations and which redirect the debate on the privatization of public space. Wastelands and terrains vagues are studied in detail in a section on urban activism and transgression and the reader gets a glimpse of the extremes of our dualized, postcivil condition through case studies on Jakarta, Dubai, and Kinshasa. Heterotopia and the City provides a collective effort to reposition heterotopia as a crucial concept for contemporary urban theory. The book will be of interest to all those wishing to understand the city in the emerging postcivil society and post-historical era. Planners, architects, cultural theorists, urbanists and academics will find this a valuable contribution to current critical argument.

Co-Crafting the Just City - Tales from the Field by a Planning Scholar Turned Mayor (Hardcover): James A. Throgmorton Co-Crafting the Just City - Tales from the Field by a Planning Scholar Turned Mayor (Hardcover)
James A. Throgmorton
R4,480 Discovery Miles 44 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The 2016 election in Iowa City would provide an opportunity that planning faculty have long desired: the opportunity for one of their own to serve as mayor. In this new book, former Iowa City Mayor and Professor Emeritus James A. Throgmorton provides readers a sense of what democratically-elected city council members and mayors in the United States do and what it feels like to occupy and enact those roles. He does so by telling a set of "practice stories" focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on what he, a retired planning professor at the University of Iowa, experienced and learned as a council member from 2012 through 2019 and, simultaneously, as mayor from 2016 through 2019. The book proposes a practical, action-oriented theory about how city futures are being (and can be) shaped, showing that storytelling of various kinds plays a very important but poorly understood role in the co-crafting process, and demonstrating that skillful use of ethically-sound persuasive storytelling (especially by mayors) can improve our collective capacity to create better places. The book documents efforts to alleviate race-related inequities, increase the supply of affordable housing, adopt an ambitious climate action plan, improve relationships between city government and diverse marginalized communities, pursue more inclusive and sustainable land development codes/policies, and more. It will be of great interest to urban planning faculty and students and elected officials looking to collaboratively craft better cities for the future.

Supporting Shrinkage - Better Planning and Decision-Making for Legacy Cities (Paperback): Michael P. Johnson, Justin B.... Supporting Shrinkage - Better Planning and Decision-Making for Legacy Cities (Paperback)
Michael P. Johnson, Justin B. Hollander, Eliza W. Kinsey, George R. Chichirau; Assisted by Charla M Burnett
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability - International Frameworks, National and Local Governance (Paperback): Sophia... Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability - International Frameworks, National and Local Governance (Paperback)
Sophia Labadi, William Logan
R1,480 Discovery Miles 14 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

More than half of the world's population now live in urban areas, and cities provide the setting for contemporary challenges such as population growth, mass tourism and unequal access to socio-economic opportunities. Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability examines the impact of these issues on urban heritage, considering innovative approaches to managing developmental pressures and focusing on how taking an ethical, inclusive and holistic approach to urban planning and heritage conservation may create a stronger basis for the sustainable growth of cities in the future. This volume is a timely analysis of current theories and practises in urban heritage, with particular reference to the conflict between, and potential reconciliation of, conservation and development goals. A global range of case studies detail a number of distinct practical approaches to heritage on international, national and local scales. Chapters reveal the disjunctions between international frameworks and national implementation and assess how internationally agreed concepts can be misused to justify unsustainable practices or to further economic globalisation and political nationalism. The exclusion of many local communities from development policies, and the subsequent erosion of their cultural heritage, is also discussed, with the collection emphasising the importance of 'grass roots' heritage and exploring more inclusive and culturally responsive conservation strategies. Contributions from an international group of authors, including practitioners as well as leading academics, deliver a broad and balanced coverage of this topic. Addressing the interests of both urban planners and heritage specialists, Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability is an important addition to the field that will encourage further discourse.

Data-centric Regenerative Built Environment - Big Data for Sustainable Regeneration (Hardcover): Saeed Banihashemi, Sepideh... Data-centric Regenerative Built Environment - Big Data for Sustainable Regeneration (Hardcover)
Saeed Banihashemi, Sepideh Zarepour Sohi
R1,683 Discovery Miles 16 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the use of big data in regenerative urban environment and how data helps in functional planning and design solutions. This book is one of the first endeavors to present the data-driven methods for regenerative built environments and integrate it with the novel design solutions. It looks at four specific areas in which data is used - urban land use, transportation and traffic, environmental concerns and social issues - and draws on the theoretical literature concerning regenerative built environments to explain how the power of big data can achieve the systematic integration of urban design solutions. It then applies an in-depth case study method on Asian metropolises including Beijing and Tehran to bring the developed innovation into a research-led practical context. This book is a useful reference for anyone interested in driving sustainable regeneration of our urban environments through big data-centric design solutions.

Sustainable Urban Regeneration - Insights and Evaluation from a UK Housing Association (Hardcover): Kevin Dean, Claudia Trillo,... Sustainable Urban Regeneration - Insights and Evaluation from a UK Housing Association (Hardcover)
Kevin Dean, Claudia Trillo, Angela Lee
R4,470 Discovery Miles 44 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Presents a practical new model for evaluating the sustainable return on investment for housing led urban regeneration projects Works towards better fulfilling United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 11 Useful for planners, strategic managers, local authorities, housing associations, the construction industry and built environment students alike

Walkable Cities - Revitalization, Vibrancy, and Sustainable Consumption (Paperback): Carlos J. L. Balsas Walkable Cities - Revitalization, Vibrancy, and Sustainable Consumption (Paperback)
Carlos J. L. Balsas
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Changing Space, Changing City - Johannesburg after apartheid - Open Access selection (Hardcover): Peter Ahmad, Willem... Changing Space, Changing City - Johannesburg after apartheid - Open Access selection (Hardcover)
Peter Ahmad, Willem Badenhorst, Keith Beavon, Claire Benit-Gbaffou, Sarah Charlton, …
R480 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

As the dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation's imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This book offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city's physical space, as well as a host of chapters on the character of specific neighbourhoods and the social identities being forged within them. Informing all of these is a consideration of underlying economic, social and political processes shaping the wider Gauteng province. A mix of respected academics, practising urban planners and experienced policymakers offer compelling overviews of the rapid and complex spatial developments that have taken place in Johannesburg since the end of apartheid, along with tantalising glimpses into life on the streets and behind the high walls of this diverse city. The book has three sections. Section A provides an overview of macro spatial trends and the policies that have influenced them. Section B explores the shaping of the city at district and suburban level, revealing the peculiarity of processes in different areas. This analysis elucidates the larger trends, while identifying shifts that are not easily detected at the macro level. Section C is an assembly of chapters and short vignettes that focus on the interweaving of place and identity at a micro level. With empirical data supported by new data sets including the 2011 Census, the city's Development Planning and Urban Management Department's information system, and Gauteng City-Region Observatory's substantial archive, the book is an essential reference for planning practitioners, urban geographers, sociologists, and social anthropologists, among others.

Democracy and Delivery - Urban Policy in South Africa (Paperback): Udesh Pillay, Richard Tomlinson, Jacques du Toit Democracy and Delivery - Urban Policy in South Africa (Paperback)
Udesh Pillay, Richard Tomlinson, Jacques du Toit
R235 R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Save R18 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Democracy and delivery - Urban policy in South Africa tells the story of urban policy and its formulation in South Africa. As such, it provides an important resource for present and future urban policy processes. In a series of essays written by leading academics and practitioners, Democracy and delivery documents and assesses the formulation, evolution and implementation of urban policy in South African during the first ten years of democracy in rigorous detail. The contributors describe the creation of democratic local governments from the time of the 1976 Soweto uprising and the intense township struggles of the 1980s, the construction of 'developmental' planning and financial frameworks, and the delivery of housing and services by the new democratic order. They examine the policy formulation processes and what underlay these, debate the role of research and the influence of international development agencies and assess successes and failures in policy implementation. Looking to the future, the contributors make suggestions based on experience with implementation and changing political priorities.

Waterfront Design in Small Mediterranean Port Towns (Hardcover): Giovanna Piga Waterfront Design in Small Mediterranean Port Towns (Hardcover)
Giovanna Piga
R4,484 Discovery Miles 44 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book addresses issues that waterfronts face in small Mediterranean port towns due to increases in the tourism industry. Integrating theory and pragmatic approaches, Waterfront Design in Small Port Towns proposes a design matrix which can go on to be implemented in waterfronts globally. The demand for a sustainable regeneration of the urban waterfront is constantly growing and represents the ultimate challenge to preserve and value the uniqueness of the region and to activate an overall redevelopment of small port towns. To understand these issues, Waterfront Design in Small Port Towns contains an in-depth investigation of the cultural and environmental assets and spatial socio-economic factors of the urban waterfront. This is conducted through the author's original methodological framework, the Waterfront Design Matrix, which responds to the specific scales and idiosyncrasies of the archetypical waterfront. The methodological and theoretical approach developed in the book can be applied to different geographical locations and countries, presenting comparable characteristics. This book is an ideal read for professionals and students alike with an interest in urban design and planning.

Green Productivity and Cleaner Production - A Guidebook for Sustainability (Paperback): Guttila Yugantha Jayasinghe, Shehani... Green Productivity and Cleaner Production - A Guidebook for Sustainability (Paperback)
Guttila Yugantha Jayasinghe, Shehani Sharadha Maheepala, Prabuddhi Chathurika Wijekoon
R1,570 Discovery Miles 15 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Green Productivity and Cleaner Production: A Guidebook for Sustainability focuses on green production processes that could help better achieve global sustainability. It aids readers in realizing the issues with current conventional productivity initiatives and examines the newest methods. Also, it presents numerous real-world applications techniques, which allows users the ability to apply the most appropriate solutions for their situations. Further, it explains measures to achieve green productivity and cleaner production to help maintain high quality, sustainable production chains while simultaneously conserving natural resources and reducing waste. Features: Examines the core theories and techniques for green productivity, waste management, end-of-pipe treatment methods, sustainable production technologies, and cleaner production Written with a simple and easily understandable presentation, applicable for both undergraduate students and practicing professionals alike Provides guidance on how to use different tools and techniques in various problem-solving scenarios Focuses on greening production processes as an initiation to achieve global environmental sustainability Includes numerous illustrations, along with practical examples and tools helpful for readers to understand and apply the approaches presented throughout The subjects covered in Green Productivity and Cleaner Production: A Guidebook for Sustainability are of interest to students, researchers, academicians, and professionals in various industries.

Sustainable Smart City Transitions - Theoretical Foundations, Sociotechnical Assemblage and Governance Mechanisms (Hardcover):... Sustainable Smart City Transitions - Theoretical Foundations, Sociotechnical Assemblage and Governance Mechanisms (Hardcover)
Luca Mora, Mark Deakin, Xiaoling Zhang, Michael Batty, Paolo Santi, …
R4,492 Discovery Miles 44 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book enhances the reader's understanding of the theoretical foundations, sociotechnical assemblage, and governance mechanisms of sustainable smart city transitions. Drawing on empirical evidence stemming from existing smart city research, the book begins by advancing a theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between smart city development studies and some of the key assumptions underpinning transition management and system innovation research, human geography, spatial planning, and critical urban scholarship. This interdisciplinary theoretical formulation details how smart city transitions unfold and how they should be conceptualized and enacted in order to be assembled as sustainable developments. The proposed theory of sustainable smart city transitions is then enriched by the findings of investigations into the planning and implementation of smart city transition strategies and projects. Focusing on different empirical settings, change dimensions, and analytical elements, the attention moves from the sociotechnical requirements of citywide transition pathways to the development of sector-specific smart city projects and technological innovations, in particular in the fields of urban mobility and urban governance. This book represents a relevant reference work for academic and practitioner audiences, policy makers, and representative of smart city industries. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Urban Technology.

Making Mobilities Matter (Hardcover): Malene Freudendal-Pedersen Making Mobilities Matter (Hardcover)
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
R1,663 Discovery Miles 16 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Making Mobilities Matter explores the interconnection between everyday practice and policy and planning in urban mobilities. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding everyday life and its mobilities in a mobile risk society and critiques the technocratic views that still dominate transport politics and research. Recognizing the importance of culture and everyday life in shaping urban mobilities, it examines how contemporary communities exist, expand, and are sustained through localized and virtual forms of sharing responsibility, exchanging life experiences, creating meaning, and giving ontological security to people's lives. It also offers perspectives on the emotional aspect of mobilities in everyday life and how utopias can respond to these emotions. Making Mobilities Matter ends with a discussion of the prospects for urban mobilities in the future and how these issues are vital in battling climate change. Making Mobilities Matter is essential reading for students and researchers seeking to understand the importance of mobilities in sustainable urban development and tackling climate change.

Crime and Fear in Public Places - Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities (Paperback): Vania Ceccato, Mahesh Nalla Crime and Fear in Public Places - Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities (Paperback)
Vania Ceccato, Mahesh Nalla
R1,471 Discovery Miles 14 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place, whatever its nature-a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner-is where people pass by, meet each other and at times become a victim of crime. With this book, we submit that crime and safety in public places are not issues that can be easily dealt with within the boundaries of a single discipline. The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world. This is achieved by tackling five cross-cutting themes: the nature of the city's environment as a backdrop for crime and fear; the dynamics of individuals' daily routines and their transit safety; the safety perceptions experienced by those who are most in fear in public places; the metrics of crime and fear; and, finally, examples of current practices in promoting safety. All these original chapters contribute to our quest for safer, more inclusive, resilient, equitable and sustainable cities and human settlements aligned to the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Urban Regeneration and Neoliberalism - The New Liverpool Home (Paperback): Clare Kinsella Urban Regeneration and Neoliberalism - The New Liverpool Home (Paperback)
Clare Kinsella
R1,366 Discovery Miles 13 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the concept of 'home' in Liverpool over phases of 'regeneration' following the Second World War. Using qualitative research in the oral history tradition, it explores what the author conceptualises as 'forward-facing' regeneration in the period up to the 1980s, and neoliberal regeneration interventions that 'prioritise the past' from the 1980s to the present. The author examines how the shift towards city centre-focused redevelopment and 'event-led' initiatives has implications for the way residents make sense of their conceptualisations of 'home', and demonstrates how the shift in regeneration focus, discourse, and practice, away from Liverpool's neighbourhood districts and towards the city centre, has produced changes in the ways that residents identify with neighbourhoods and the city centre, with prominence being given to the latter. Employing Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and field as mechanisms for understanding different senses of home and shifts from localised views to globalised views, this book will appeal to those with interests in urban sociology, regeneration, geography, sociology, home cultures, and cities.

Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - Toward a More Equitable Future (Paperback): Eric Christian Bruun Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - Toward a More Equitable Future (Paperback)
Eric Christian Bruun
R1,248 Discovery Miles 12 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable infrastructure are made. Through detailed analysis of public investment in infrastructure over the last few decades in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Finland, the author explores how the decision-making processes for major public works spending, many of them requiring quite rigorous and detailed computational methodologies, can result in plans that underserve large portions of the population, are inequitable, and fail to efficiently preserve public property. Beginning with some of the commonly offered explanations for the slow pace of investment and repair in a supposedly prosperous society facing serious environmental challenges, the book then explores media's role in shaping the public-at-large's understanding of the situation and the unimaginative solutions put forward by politicians. It continues with some case studies of infrastructure investment, or lack thereof, including an exploration of competing uses for government funds. It concludes with some suggestions. It is aimed at a large readership of professionals, students, and policy makers in political science, urban planning, and civil engineering.

Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia - Subjectivities and Spatiality (Paperback): Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia - Subjectivities and Spatiality (Paperback)
Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak
R1,287 Discovery Miles 12 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

1) This is a multidisciplinary volume on understanding neighbourhood in Urban South Asia as socio-spatial in character. 2) It contains articles on urban subjectivities and the idea of lived spaces with studies from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and India. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of urban sociology, anthropology, urban studies, planning and development, social history, political studies, cultural studies, geography and South Asian studies.

On Common Ground - International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust (Hardcover): John Emmeus Davis, Line Algoed, Maria E... On Common Ground - International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust (Hardcover)
John Emmeus Davis, Line Algoed, Maria E Hernandez-Torrales
R1,196 R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Save R166 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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